Rosel
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rosel has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1935. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1961, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Rosel, 1961
1 in 690,000
Rosel over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Rosel?
Rosel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1961, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1961
- 1 in 690,000
- 6 of 4,142,426 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 336,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1961
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 478,553 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rosel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1961 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 478,553 children born in 1961 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rosel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rosels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rosel was born before 1961 — so the typical Rosel is around 64 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 54.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 54.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 6
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Rosel rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1961 (6)
- Years since peak
- 64
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Rosel
Rosel is not the most common spelling — Rose is, with 58.0% against Rosel's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Rosel around the world
Where Rosel ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2025–2025#3,705in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Rosel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Rosel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rosel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.